Best six & may Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“My downtime tends to resemble my uptime. Weekends are workdays, but toned down. Over the whole weekend, I may have five meetings, as opposed to six on a weekday. I used to play piano for 30 minutes at night, but I had to pull that out of my schedule. I don't have time for nonwork stuff.”

May Play Whole Used Night Stuff Five Minutes Six Meetings Piano Weekend Schedules Downtime Weekdays

Author:Aaron Levie

“A biography is considered complete if it merely accounts for six or seven selves, whereas a person may well have as many as a thousand.”

Ifs Wells May Persons Self Literature Thousand Six Accounts Seven Biographies

Author:Virginia Woolf

“Shakespeare never had six lines together without a fault. Perhaps you may find seven, but this does not refute my general assertion.”

May Doe Together Lines Six Faults Seven Assertion

Book:Johnson on Shakespeare: Essays and Notes

Source: Johnson on Shakespeare: Essays and Notes

“This is the third time that, in the course of six years, during which I have had the lead of the Opposition in the House of Commons, I have stormed the Treasury Benches: twice, fruitlessly, the third time with a tin kettle to my tail which rendered the race hopeless. You cannot, therefore, be surprised, that I am a little wearied of these barren victories, which like Alma, Inkerman, and Balaclava, may be glorious but are certainly nothing more.”

Years May Littles Courses House Race Victory Six Thirds Glorious Opposition Hopeless Tails Benches Barren Treasury Tin Kettles House Of Commons Third Time

Author:Benjamin Disraeli

“Professional investment may be likened to those newspaper competitions in which the competitors have to pick out the six prettiest faces from a hundred photographs, the prize being awarded to the competitor whose choice most nearly corresponds to the average preferences of the competitors as a whole.”

May Whole Faces Choices Six Picks Hundred Competition Investment Photograph Average Newspapers Prize Preference Competitors Prettiest

Book:General Theory Of Employment , Interest And Money

Source: General Theory Of Employment , Interest And Money

“Other countries may boast of this and that, but nobody can touch the United States for poisonous snakes. We have about twenty species, most of them deadly, and Europe has only five or six, none of them much good. We have fifteen kinds of Rattlesnakes alone and nobody else has even one. [Footnote: There is a species in Central and South America, but it probably came from here.]”

Kind May Country States America United United States Five Six Europe Twenties South Species Other Countries Fifteen Snakes Boast Poisonous South America Rattlesnakes Poisonous Snakes

Author:Will Cuppy

“I ought to respect myself for my friends' sake, and my children's. It is time, at fifty-six, to begin, at least, to know oneself, - and I do know what I am not, and your regard for me has at least awakened me to believe in the possibility that I may yet make some impression with my "light" - my "dews" - my "breezes" - my bloom and freshness, - no one of which qualities has yet been perfected on the canvas of any painter in the world.”

Knows World Believe May Children Light Quality Possibility Ought Six My Friends Regard Sake Oneself Impression Painter My Children Fifty Canvas Breeze Awakened Dew Freshness Knowing Oneself

Author:John Constable

“You always draw on your experiences with live audiences to know how to do comedy on films. You're working for a laugh that may or may not come six months later, but you're working in a vacuum at the time you are doing it.”

Knows May Film Audience Laughing Know How Comedy Months Six Draws Six Months Vacuums

Author:Theodore Bikel

“Don't let people scare you from a career that may not net you a six figure salary. If you want to be a teacher, teach. But knowing that your salary may only reach a certain level, do all that you can to become the best money manager you can be.”

People Ifs Want May Certain Levels Careers Teach Knowing Teacher Figures Six Managers Scare Salary Best Money

Author:Michelle Singletary

“I have a theory that since everyone is always dieting, no one at a convention dinner ever eats the potatoes. Therefore, they go back to the kitchen uneaten. And the next night they reappear at another convention. Therefore, one should never eat the potatoes. Who knows? They may be six or seven years old.”

Knows Should Years May Night Next Food Theory Six Seven Dinner Kitchen Conventions Potatoes Seven Years Dieting

Author:Lois Wyse

“Too many people believe they can control their drug of choice. But the drug is almost always in control. If an addict truly wants help, it is available, but it is a rocky path. The monster always calls. Never give an addict money. Clothe them. Feed them. But enabling them is the quickest path to watching them fade away completely. This may seem harsh. But I've watched my own child relapse, after six years sober. I love her. Always. But I can't help her die.”

People Ifs Want Giving Years Believe May Children I Can Helping Seems Dies Choices My Own Path Drug Six Available Monsters Fades Harsh Sober Addict Enabling Fade Away Relapse

Author:Ellen Hopkins

“In California today, you may save more water by not eating a pound of beef than you would by not showering for six entire months.”

May Today Water Months Six Eating Climate Change California Pounds Beef

Book:The Food Revolution: How Your Diet Can Help Save Your Life and Our World

Source: The Food Revolution: How Your Diet Can Help Save Your Life and Our World

“I have a work presently in the Press named 'Six Months in Hell' which you may one day read. I consider it will be worth perusing, bruising badly the morals of Britain and America, while Royalty, clergy, critics, society and bloodhounds of law must all incur its censure.”

May America Law Moral Hell Months One Day Six Presses Critics Britain Six Months Royalty Clergy Censure Bloodhounds Britain And America

Book:Thine in storm and calm: an Amanda McKittrick Ros reader

Source: Thine in storm and calm: an Amanda McKittrick Ros reader

“After six years at Le Cirque, I decided to start my own business. I opened Daniel at 76th Street in May 93.”

Years May My Own Streets Six Decided Own Business

Author:Daniel Boulud

“The mother may be doing ninety percent of the disciplining, but the father still must have a full-time acceptance of all the children. He never must say, "Get these kids out of here; I'm trying to watch TV." If he ever does start saying this, he is liable to see one of his kids on the six o'clock news.”

Ifs Trying May Children Doe Stills Kids Mother Father Watches Acceptance Tvs Six News Percent Clock Ninety Liable

Author:Bill Cosby

“Superstring theories provide a framework in which the force of gravity may be united with the other three forces in nature: the weak, electromagnetic and strong forces. Recent progress has shown that the most promising superstring theories follow from a single theory. For the last generation, physicists have studied five string theories and one close cousin. Recently it has become clear that these five or six theories are different limiting cases of one theory which, though still scarcely understood, is the candidate for superunification of the forces of nature.”

“What I do is interpret, not create. I may add elements and do something different. That is what is so incredible about theatre. Why do we love it that there are nine Hamletsor six King Lears over two years? We love to watch a different actor attack the same material.”

Years May Two Different Actors Watches Materials Kings Elements Six Add Incredibles Theatre Nine Two Years Lear

Author:Kevin Spacey

“Resolve to make at least one person happy every day, and then in ten years you may have made three thousand, six hundred and fifty persons happy, or brightened a small town by your contribution to the fund of general enjoyment.”

Years May Persons Made Three Thousand Ten Six Hundred Towns Enjoyment Contribution Fifty Fund Resolve New Year Small Town Happy New Year Funny Happy New Year

Author:Sydney Smith

“But America is a great, unwieldy Body. Its Progress must be slow. It is like a large Fleet sailing under Convoy. The fleetest Sailors must wait for the dullest and slowest. Like a Coach and six-the swiftest Horses must be slackened and the slowest quickened, that all may keep an even Pace.”

May Body America Waiting Progress Six Horse Coaches Pace Sailing Sailor

Book:The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations

Source: The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations

“A very poor man may be said in some sense to have a demand for a coach and six; he might like to have it; but his demand is not an effectual demand, as the commodity can never be brought to market in order to satisfy it.”

Men May Said Might Order Poor Demand Six Coaches Commodity Poor Man

Book:An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations

Source: An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations

“I've always got five or six things that would either make a good feature or TV show. And you just never know. You go and you pitch and it may be exactly what they're looking for, or they may stop you after two sentences and say, "Oh, we've already done something just like that."”

Knows May Two Done Shows Five Tvs Six Sentences Features Tv Shows

Author:John Sayles

“For each human being there is an optimum ratio between change and stasis. Too little change, he grows bored. Too little stability, he panics and loses his ability to adapt. One who marries six times in ten years won't change jobs. One who moves often to serve his company will maintain a stable marriage. A woman chained to one home and family may redecorate frantically or take a lover or go to many costume parties.”

Source: Three trips in time and space: original novellas of science fiction

“Young men may enjoy dropping their work at five or six o'clock and slipping into a dress suit for an evening of pleasure; but the habit has certain drawbacks.”

Men May Young Certain Enjoy Pleasure Five Habit Six Dresses Suits Evening Clock Young Man Dropping Slipping Drawbacks

Book:Succeeding With What You Have

Source: Succeeding With What You Have

“There are nascent stirrings in the neighborhood and in the field, articulated by non-celebrated people who bespeak the dreams of their fellows. It may be catching. Unfortunately, it is not covered on the six o'clock news.”

People May Dream Fields Six News Fellows Clock Neighborhood Covered Catching Stirring

Book:American Dreams: Lost and Found

Source: American Dreams: Lost and Found

“But America is a great, unwieldy Body. Its Progress must be slow... Like a Coach and six - the swiftest Horses must be slackened and the slowest quickened, that all may keep an even Pace.”

May Body America Progress Six Horse Coaches Pace

Book:John Adams

Source: John Adams

“If you have only a little capital and are young today, there are fewer opportunities than when I was young. Back then, we had just come out of a depression. Capitalism was a bad word. There had been abuses in the 1920s. A joke going around then was the guy who said, 'I bought stock for my old age and it worked - in six months, I feel like an old man!' "It's tougher for you, but that doesn't mean you won't do well - it just may take more time. But what the heck, you may live longer."”

Ifs Men Feels Wells May Mean Littles Said Age Today Young Guy Opportunity Months Six Jokes Capitalism Abuse Old Age More Time Old Man Fewer Six Months Bad Word

Author:Charlie Munger

“The novel may be dead as a commercial form. When art forms things die as commercial forms, something happens to the practice of those arts that isn't very pleasant. It used to be that a poet like Tennyson could keep his house and his coach-and-four and his staff of six servants on the income from poetry. That doesn't happen anymore.”

May Art Happens Form Used Dies House Practice Novel Four Poet Six Coaches Things Happen Income Used To Be Servant Pleasant Staff Tennyson

Author:William Monahan

“Where was the use, originally, in rushing this whole globe through in six days? It is likely that if more time had been taken in the first place, the world would have been made right, and this ceaseless improving and repairing would not be necessary now. But if you hurry a world or a house, you are nearly sure to find out by and by that you have left out a towhead, or a broom-closet, or some other little convenience, here and there, which has got to be supplied, no matter how much expense or vexation it may cost.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)

“Why would twenty-six-year-old "teenagers" care about political ramifications if their backs are not up against the wall? But if their backs are against the wall they may be plucked to fight in Iraq, and all of sudden they become politicized real quick.”

Ifs Years May Real Care Political Fighting Wall Six Twenties Iraq Teenager Six Year Olds Ramifications

Author:Chuck D

“Every night for the next week, set aside ten minutes before you go to sleep. Write down three things that went well today and why they went well...Writing about why the positive events in your life happened may seem awkward at first, but please stick with it for one week. It will get easier. The odds are that you will be less depressed, happier, and addicted to this exercise six months from now.”

“I lost my phone and I just really didn't look for it. It was the nicest feeling, like six weeks. ... A couple of times I needed to use a telephone, and I was always able to touch someone that had a telephone and say, "Hey, can I use your phone? May I please?" And they'd say, "Sure." And that was it! So it was OK, it was a real vacation. I took a real vacation from myself.”

Looks May Real Use Feelings Able Lost Week Couple Needed Please Six Phones Hey Vacation Telephones Touch Someone

Author:Bill Murray

“In the media, a reviewer has his personal vision but it's passed along to a million readers or whatever. He might think that this particular song sounds like Jo Blow. Or like a Bo Diddley record that he heard six years ago. But the artist who made the record may never have even heard the Bo Diddley song. We all respond differently.”

Thinking Years May Made Might Artist Song Sound Vision Millions Records Heard Media Particular Reader Six Years Ago Blow Reviewers Personal Vision

Author:Van Morrison

“The other book that I worry no one reads anymore is James Joyce's Ulysses. It's not easy, but every page is wonderful and repays the effort. I started reading it in high school, but I wasn't really able to grasp it. Then I read it in college. I once spent six weeks in a graduate seminar reading it. It takes that long. That's the problem. No one reads that way anymore. People may spend a week with a book, but not six.”

People Way May Long Book Problem Able School Reading Easy Effort Worry Wonderful Week College Six Pages High School Graduates Joyce Ulysses Seminars

Author:Joyce Carol Oates

“John Milton famously claimed, "Fame is the spur" for the poet, and indeed when we consider the six years he spent writing Paradise Lost, and the additional years revising it, from 1664 to 1674, we may allow that spur.”

Writing Years May Lost Poet Fame Six Paradise Spurs Milton Revising

Author:Shirley Geok-lin Lim

“I go to a hotel and try to get there by 5:30 in the morning. I keep a dictionary, a thesaurus, a bible, a deck of playing cards, a bottle of sherry, and stacks of yellow sticky pads. I shut myself in for six, seven hours. I have an arrangement with the hotel that no one may go in my room. After three or four months, they might slip notes under my door like, "Dear Ms. Angelou, please let us change the linens. We think they might be molding." It's probably true. I let them in if they promise not to touch anything other then the bed.”

“In my school, the library was forbidden. I was accused of turning on the radiator so that the [class]room was uninhabitable and the ceiling came down below; I'm pretty sure I didn't do it. But then we were moved to the library. And there was a really boring history thing, about the Spanish Armada: how could you make that boring?!So I reached my hand out, and slid a book off to read under the desk, and it opened at King Lear Act Four Scene Six. I was astounded. I'd never seen language like it. I was awestruck. I think that may be one reason why I got involved in theatre.”

Thinking May Book Reason Hands School Language Rooms Class Four Kings Involved Scene Six Moved Library Boring Theatre Reason Why Desks Forbidden Accused Ceilings Lear Astounded Awestruck

Author:Keith Johnstone

“When we worked at the pottery, we did learn to make pots, that is, the physical act of making the pot. We learned to control clay, to put it where you want it and not just wherever it wanted to go, and that was valuable. At the end of about six months, though, I think if that was all we had, we may have been inclined to leave because the workshop did not challenge us so much as living with [Bernard] Leach did.”

Ifs Thinking Want May Has Beens Ends Wanted Challenges Months Six Valuable Pot Six Months Clay Workshops Pottery

Author:Warren MacKenzie

“An investigation may take six months. A quick interview, profile, a day.”

May Months Six Interviews Investigation Six Months Profile

Author:Diane Sawyer

“And talking about dark! You think dark is just one color, but it ain't. There're five or six kinds of black. Some silky, some woolly. Some just empty. Some like fingers. And it don't stay still, it moves and changes from one kind of black to another. Saying something is pitch black is like saying something is green. What kind of green? Green like my bottles? Green like a grasshopper? Green like a cucumber, lettuce, or green like the sky is just before it breaks loose to storm? Well, night black is the same way. May as well be a rainbow.”

Thinking Way Wells Kind May Stills Moving Night Black Dark Talking Break Five Sky Color Six Empty Green Fingers Storm Just One Bottles Rainbow Lettuce Cucumbers Grasshoppers Pitch Black

Author:Toni Morrison

“I abhor averages. I like the individual case. A man may have six meals one day and none the next, making an average of three meals per day, but that is not a good way to live.”

Men Way May Funny Three Next Individual Cases Food One Day Six Humorous Average Meals Statistics Good Day Good Way Way To Live

Author:Louis D. Brandeis

“Show me a man or a woman alone and I'll show you a saint. Give me two and they'll fall in love. Give me three and they'll invent the charming thing we call 'society'. Give me four and they'll build a pyramid. Give me five and they'll make one an outcast. Give me six and they'll reinvent prejudice. Give me seven and in seven years they'll reinvent warfare. Man may have been made in the image of God, but human society was made in the image of His opposite number, and is always trying to get back home.”

Source: The Stand

“Your pillow alone may be home to 40 million bed mites. (To them your head is just one large oily bon-bon). And don't think a clean pillow-case will make a difference... Indeed, if your pillow is six years old--which is apparently about the average age for a pillow--it has been estimated that one-tenth of its weight will be made up of sloughed skin, living mites, dead mites and mite dung.”

Ifs Thinking Years May Has Beens Made Home Age Differences Millions Cases Bed Six Skins Weight Clean Average Just One Making A Difference Pillow Six Year Olds

Author:Bill Bryson

“When they separated, the freckleless spot between Pete's eyes was bright red. Before anything else could be said or done, May grabbed her bike and hopped on. She waited until she was six houses down to turn and see if he was still standing in the driveway watching her. He was. She stopped for just a moment, and they caught each other's eyes. Then he slowly started walking backward toward the house. May couldn't see that well, considering that her eyes were still a little blurry and he was far away, but it looked like he was smiling.”

Ifs Wells May Littles Said Stills Done Moments Eye Turns House Walking Six Red Standing Caught Spots Far Away Considering Her Eyes Bike Driveway Blurry

Author:Maureen Johnson

“For I do not want any one to read my book carelessly. I have suffered too much grief in setting down these memories. Six years have already passed since my friend went away from me, with his sheep. If I try to describe him here, it is to make sure that I shall not forget him. To forget a friend is sad. Not every one has had a friend. And if I forget him, I may become like the grown-ups who are no longer interested in anything but figures.”

Ifs Want Trying Years May Book Memories Forget Grief Too Much Figures Six My Friends Setting Settings Sheep Forget Him Forget A Friend

Author:Antoine de Saint-Exupery

“When a girl uses six derogatory adjectives in her attempt to paint the portrait of the loved one, it means something. One may indicate a merely temporary tiff. Six is big stuff.”

May Mean Use Bigs Girl Stuff Six Paint Temporary Loved Ones Portraits Adjectives Derogatory Big Stuff

Author:P. G. Wodehouse

“As he paid the hansom and followed his wife's long train into the house he took refuge in the comforting platitude that the first six months were always the most difficult in marriage. 'After that I suppose we shall have pretty nearly finished rubbing off each other’s angles,' he reflected; but the worst of it was that May's pressure was already bearing on the very angles whose sharpness he most wanted to keep”

Firsts May Long Wanted House Difficult Wife Worst Months Six Paid Pressure Train Finished Refuge Angle Six Months Adaptation Comforting Platitudes Sharpness Most Wanted

Book:The Age of Innocence

Source: The Age of Innocence

“I don't know if you've ever noticed this, but first impressions are often entirely wrong. You can look at a painting for the first time, for example, and not like it at all, but after looking at it a little longer you may find it very pleasing. The first time you try Gorgonzola cheese you may find it too strong, but when you are older you may want to eat nothing but Gorgonzola cheese. Klaus, when Sunny was born, did not like her at all, but by the time she was six weeks old the two of them were thick as thieves. Your initial opinion on just about anything may change over time.”

“We may be together for another six months—a year—there’s no knowing. At the end we’re certain to be apart. Do you realize how utterly alone we shall be?”

Years May Ends Together Certain Realizing Knowing Months Six Six Months

Book:Animal Farm and 1984

Source: Animal Farm and 1984

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